To: Board of Supervisors
From: Public Works
Agenda Section: Departmental
Vote Requirement: Majority
SUBJECT:
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Recycling Convenience Zones in Humboldt County
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Review the existing Recycling Convenience Zones as shown in Attachment 1; and
2. Provide direction to the Department of Public Works on recommended changes to the Recycling Convenience Zone Boundaries.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Solid Waste (3691-438)
DISCUSSION:
The Department of Public Works (DPW) is currently involved in a Pilot Program with Hambro Recycling and the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecyle). The pilot program involves the provision of California Refund Value (CRV) services by Hambro Recycling in the communities of Willow Creek and Redway. As part of this pilot, the county has the ability to make recommendations to CalRecycle to change the boundaries of the current Recycling Convenience Zones shown on the maps in Attachment 1.
A convenience zone is typically a one (1) mile radius circle with the center point originating at a supermarket that:
1. Is identified in the Progressive Grocer Marketing Guidebook.
2. Has gross annual sales that are $2 million or more.
3. Is considered a "full-line" store that sells a line of dry groceries, canned goods, or non-food items and perishable items.
The importance of Recycling Convenience Zones is that without them, a supermarket that meets the above requirements must offer CRV services or pay CalRecycle a $100 per day penalty.
A convenience zone can be expanded if it is both (1) located in a rural region, and (2) would include within its expanded radius only one recycling center that is not within any other zone.
There are two (2) ways by which expanded convenience zones in rural regions can be created:
1. Supermarket-Based Expanded Zone (Five Miles)
o An interested person must petition CalRecyle to have the zone expanded
o There can be o...
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